Review: In recent times, Bristol-based Banoffee Pies Records has edged further away from its disco and deep house roots towards a more forthright club sound rooted in breakbeat and UK garage. That trend continues on "Number One Slugger", the label debut from sometime Discovery and Scuffed artist Nikki Nair. He hits the ground running with "Super", a formidably sub-heavy affair that sits somewhere between electro, ghetto-tech and UKG, before reaching for the mind-altering electronics, weighty electro drums and ghetto-house style vocal samples of "Slug". In contrast, "Salt" peppers a sparse but cowbell-laden beat with echoing ragga vocal samples, while "Fidelity" wraps delay-laden metallic melodies around bustling electro beats and closing cut "Stotch" revolves around gorgeous chords and lilting, sun-speckled synthesizer melodies.
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